pap

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See also: Pap and PAP

Translingual

Symbol

pap

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Papiamento.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæp/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
    Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
  2. (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; pablum.
  3. (South Africa) Porridge.
    Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  4. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
    Treasury pap
  5. The pulp of fruit.
Translations

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
  2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
  3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Translations

Etymology 3

Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. Pap smear

Etymology 4

From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”).[1] Cognate with etymology 1.

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
    He is so pap and boring.
  2. (South Africa, slang) Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
Translations

Etymology 5

Clipping of paparazzo.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) A paparazzo.
    • 2015, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", OK! Magazine:
      As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.
    • 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings:
      We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (informal, usually passive voice) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
    Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

Etymology 6

Compare pa, papa, pop.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) Pa; father.
    • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
      Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father

Etymology 7

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: pap

References

  1. ^ pap, adjective in the Dictionary of South African English, Rhodes University.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (uncountable)

  1. porridge

References

Aromanian

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)

  1. grandfather
  2. ancestor, forefather
  3. old man

Synonyms

See also

Catalan

Etymology

From papar.

Noun

pap m (plural paps)

  1. crop, craw
    Synonym: gavatx
  2. double chin
    Synonym: papada
  3. belly
    Synonym: panxa

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From German Pappe, from Middle High German pappe (“porridge, mush”), a common nursery word for "porridge", compare Upper German Papp, English pap, Latin pappa, pāpa (“an infant's cry for food”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)

  1. cardboard

Inflection

Declension of pap
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pap pappet papper papperne
genitive paps pappets pappers pappernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pappe.

Noun

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

  1. mush
  2. porridge
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: pap
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pap
  • Jersey Dutch: pap
  • → Papiamentu: papa
  • → Saramaccan: pápa

Etymology 2

Shorter form of papa, usually considered more grown-up, whereas papa is considered rather child-like.

Noun

pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

  1. (colloquial) Pa, dad

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pap

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of pappen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of pappen

Hungarian

 pap (hivatás) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (plural papok)

  1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pap papok
accusative papot papokat
dative papnak papoknak
instrumental pappal papokkal
causal-final papért papokért
translative pappá papokká
terminative papig papokig
essive-formal papként papokként
essive-modal — —
inessive papban papokban
superessive papon papokon
adessive papnál papoknál
illative papba papokba
sublative papra papokra
allative paphoz papokhoz
elative papból papokból
delative papról papokról
ablative paptól papoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		papé papoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		papéi papokéi
Possessive forms of pap
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. papom papjaim
2nd person sing. papod papjaid
3rd person sing. papja papjai
1st person plural papunk papjaink
2nd person plural papotok papjaitok
3rd person plural papjuk papjaik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

See also

References

  1. ^ pap in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • pap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pap (sense 7, but likely also from sense 5).

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (first-person possessive papku, second-person possessive papmu, third-person possessive papnya)

  1. (slang) A picture obtained as a result of pap.

Verb

pap

  1. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture (especially a photograph), usually as proof of something.
  2. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture of oneself with their background location visible and/or to take/send/post a picture of a location (in which one is currently in), especially (as proof) to show where one currently is.
  3. (slang) to take a picture of something.
  4. (slang) to take/send a picture of oneself, especially of their sexual body parts; to send a nude
  5. (slang, usually active voice) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent.

Usage notes

Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

  1. to swim

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

pap

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of păpa

Sumerian

Romanization

pap

  1. Romanization of 𒉽 (pap)

Zazaki

Noun

pap (c)

  1. popcorn
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